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Malala marks 18th birthday by opening school for girl refugees

Human Rights Activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has marked her 18th birthday with a renewed commitment to refugees and education by inaugurating a school for more than 200 Syrian girls living in refugee camps in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

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Malala warns of education funding threat for Syrian refugees

The international community must urgently increase education funding for Syrian refugees to avoid a lost generation resulting from the country's civil war, education activist Malala Yousafzai said on Monday (July 13).

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Indonesia: education union demands payment of teacher profession allowance

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Nigeria: Educators killed in a brutal Boko Haram attack

Twenty-eight primary school teachers were killed after extremists set off a bomb that ripped through a crowded group of civil servants in north-western Nigeria, the latest in a string of deadly attacks this week.

A bomb attack in northeast Nigeria led to the “gruesome murder” of 28 primary school teachers.

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Blog: What I learned from Ron Thorpe

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Global education unionists ready for biggest ever EI Congress

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Refugee student's hard work pays off with scholarship to study in USA

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Joel Tshite and his proud parents show off his scholarship certificate from the US Student Achievers Program awards ceremony held recently in Harare, Zimbabwe UNHCR/M.Mutuli

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Out-of-school numbers rise as aid to education falls short of 2010 levels

A new study shows that the number of children and adolescents who are out of school is on the rise, and grew to 124 million in 2013. Released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR), it shows that international aid to education remains below 2010 levels and is grossly insufficient to meet new education targets to achieve universal primary and secondary education.

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USA: NEA gears up for EI World Congress

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Norway: Education stakeholders in Oslo to set global financial priorities

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EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen discussed Quality and Learning at the Qslo Summit on Education and Development